Lecture 2 - geo-histo relation people + food Flashcards
(lec 1 review) CAS?
complex adaptive system (food systems)
farming was a punishment for…
Prometheus stealing fire (no farming in Eden)
Neolithic is when _ becomes _
chiefdom becomes civilization
when Greek & Rome cultivated their hinterlands w. slaves there were the very first ……
food miles
1st Agro Revo
permanent arable fields -manure -augmented w. swidden (fire)
neolithic - Greek & Rome does what?
hinterlands cultivated w. slaves
How were Greek & Roman tolls paid?
food
2nd Agro Revo
-high farming methods -chemical fertilizer -steam engine -pop growth -BARB WIRE -ENCLOSURE (5200 cases)
2nd revo - in the manorial system the commons were …
enclosed
2nd revo - Enclosure =
- concentration of ownership 2. deprivation of commoners (no land, become poor people) - cities become slums
2nd revo (especially) - David Harvey
Accumulation by Dispossession
2nd revo - food cost kept down for sake of …
keeping wages low
2nd revo - high farming methods =
rift between peasants & tech farmers (eventually, industrial)
2nd revo - the capitalist turn?
enclosure + technology & accumulation of WEALTH
Political Economy (4 points) =
- players 2. practices 3. economics 4. powers & interests
“food regime” creators
Harriet Friedman & Philip McMichael
- food regime
enclosure
- food regime
50-70 / capitalist / ww1-2 / cold war / ENVIRO CRISIS / DUST BOWL / DEPLETION = trigger to change / food aid / cold war boundaries / enclosure of tradtitions / agrobusiness /
- food regime
Starts with 72-73 oil crisis / but Green Revo also addressing “dust bowl” and soil depletion
tropical & temperate foods joined in …
food flows
2ns and 3rd food regimes’ relationship to war?
DDT -> weapon & pesticide … salt peter = gunpowder and fertilizer
not political economy but …
political ecology
The 3RD Agro Revo =
Green revo / tech transfer / results in GN controlling GS / monocrops
